PRINTERS "PIE".
A delicious pieco of 'pie' wi.l nearly being served up to the render* of a Liverpool pnper tho otlior day. Tho previous ovoning its reporter had to niton I ft wet* ing nt ft Wenloynn cluipol for tho convor* aiou of tho Hebrews to Christianity, aflor which ho reported tho ft.ldross g ; vcn by Gen. H. Y. D. Scolt Jo iho .Polytechnic Society on tho convcr.vonof sewago into limo and coraont. In tho printer's hands tho folios got mixed up nnd the report rend—' Tho Chairman, after the meeting ' had been oponoil with prayer, explained ( ' thnt the convoraion of the Jews was one of the Kroitest works that could engage tho attention of our s mitary authorities, 1 Piltratio.i wns tho in >st porfcot method j tlmt could, bo adopted (ov purification, • but a filter hnd its limits, Thoro was a popular notion tint tho sowago contained a vast amount of wealth, but tho sludflo must b© taken out of it for purposes of i irrigation, as it othorwiso cholcod tho poros of tho Innd, an:l they wore a wan« , dorinj? vaco, 8f read over iho whole fnco , of tho lwbilnblo globe. Thoy woro doniod tho inimitublo blessings of Clirist* ' iantty.whicU might bo oounted by ihou- • sands of tons per annum nllowcd to run wasto wiion by a judicious admixturo of limo nnd clay, tho boniqhtod Jlobrows who sat in darkness might easily be oonvorted into limo nnd oomont for building purposes, and if thus dcodomod, after } being fit'ut dried and burnod in a kiln, hid ancient race would ouco nioro tuko its proud positions nmon^ Iho natioin of tho world, Subscriptions wro oarncsUy i solicited for tho purpose, though ho (tho i spoakor) d soloimod any idea of making a profit out of tho process ; and in conclusion ho ut'»;od incronsod effort 9 in tho goo.l work, showing that, tluis dood nsol by a very novel process of orangolisation i 1 ) largo tanks constructed for tho purpose, tie grntef'ul Hebrews might fhwovor the land without injury to vogetilion. while Iho exponiio of consorv r uli>n which was progressing as rnj i l'y as the l;ost friends i of Cliristinnity could wish, would bo more i thin repaid by tho ?a!o of the pho<phato of lime and valuiblu comont foo building purposes, — Sun/ny Times.
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Inangahua Times, Volume 74, Issue 74, 26 August 1878, Page 2
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386PRINTERS "PIE". Inangahua Times, Volume 74, Issue 74, 26 August 1878, Page 2
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